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ctl-yuejie · 1 year

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some tangent about the film “lean on me” made me remember gokusen (both the manga and the series/movies) and now i am thinking about where to place gokusen politically

prelimenary search yielded only two somewhat academic results in english and one in japanese and none are really getting to the point of my questions

#maybe i should widen the search to the whole genre of teacher reforms students with unique method #did that and it also wasn't that fruitful #i think there is some interesting stuff in there #because as a genre the standard is that the teacher who 'saves' the unruly students is a lone actor #and despite being a public servant they are working outside the system established and supervized by the state by either breaking rules and #showing students 'tough love' that goes against school rules and the law #or in that the school system itself is violent so the teacher breaks those rules and shows empathy #all schools in gokusen are private schools (which tracks with the image of where unruly students land in the japanese school system) and #most importantly the teacher that comes in has family ties to yakuza #so all in all tasty differences to what the basics of these stories usually are

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